Teleostei

Yellow Tang

Zebrasoma flavescens

Outer reef habitat

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Habitat in featured records: Outer reef habitat
Depths in featured records: 5–23.9 m
Viewing activities: Scuba diving · Snorkeling

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Hawaiʻi

Recorded here

2,895 OBIS records in the regional query · snapshot 2026-09-12.

Depths in retrieved records: 5–23.9 m
Habitat in retrieved records: Outer reef habitat

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OBIS · 2019-07-16NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish in the U.S. Pacific Islands · Diver initials TCW · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
OBIS · 2016-08-15NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish in the U.S. Pacific Islands · Diver initials JPZ · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode
OBIS · 2016-08-12NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Ecosystem Sciences Division, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Stratified random surveys (StRS) of reef fish in the U.S. Pacific Islands · Diver initials ARP · http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode